OSGeo Multilanguage Dictionary

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This page is a proposal

Multi-language OSGeo dictionary

The scope is to collect over the years geo* related terms in a multi-language style to facilitate reading/writing in other languages, to help with software internationalization, to help when writing proposals in non-mother-tongue languages (like me who has to write in Italian) etc.

Example (this would be a dictionary software then):

  EN: landscape genetics
  IT: genetica del paesaggio
  DE: Landschaftsgenetik
  ...

Since we are an excellent group of experts covering many languages, we could run this as long-term Edu project.

Once a reasonable amount of terms is available, download should be enabled in Docbook or other formats.

Software platform

We could use the Wiktionary software (http://www.wiktionary.org/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary) and keep it just running. Possibly an OSGeo hacker could also fetch translations from Wikipedia from a handcrafted terms collection of terms to populate an initial dictionary (using the box on the left side which references translations).

Wiktionary is just using MediaWiki as all other WikiMedia sites (and this OSGeo wiki too). So, very easy to run.--steko 06:29, 13 November 2007 (EST)
- I have asked Martin Spott about installation and will report back. Markus Neteler 11:14, 24 November 2007 (EST)

Interested people

Markus Neteler (proposer)
Landon Blake (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor)
Marie Silvestre
Venkatesh Raghavan
Clara Tattoni
Tyler

Content providers

Book in progress: "Handbook of Geospatial Technology: For Analysis and Modeling" (Springer New York) by Mitasova, Neteler, Mitchell, Olaya: terminology used in the book will be defined via this dictionary

Existing related free dictionaries

GRASS Translation Glossary
...

Links

Starter Dictionary

Wikipedia Entry Maintenance